User talk:John Dedge

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Hello John Dedge, and welcome to Wikipedia. I hope that you have enjoyed contributing and want to stick around. Here are some tips to help you get started: If you need any more information, plenty of help is available - check out Questions; ask your question here and attract help with the code ; or leave me a message on my talk page explaining your problem and I will help as best as I can. Again, welcome! strdst_grl (call me Stardust) 15:56, 21 May 2010 (UTC)
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Welcome to Wikipedia! I'm glad you want to get involved, but I'm afraid there's a problem with the article you created,  Alan Partridge Quotes. It did not indicate how or why the subject is notable, that is, why an article about that subject should be included in Wikipedia. Don't feel too badly; lots of people have a little trouble when creating their first article. You might find it useful to read Your First Article for some good advice about starting to create articles on Wikipedia. Two important rules of thumb are: Avoid writing about yourself, your business, your family and friends, or your web page, and avoid writing about anything that hasn't been written about in reliable sources like books, newspapers, and magazines. Anyway, don't be discouraged. I've deleted the article you created, and feel free to ask me if you have any more questions. If I've made a mistake, and this article really is about a subject that meets the notability criteria, then please let me know my leaving me a message and links to at least three newspaper articles, magazine articles, or books that have been written about the subject, and I'll be glad to undelete it, and even add the sources so no other patroller makes the same mistake. -FisherQueen (talk · contribs) 15:57, 21 May 2010 (UTC)

Alan Partridge Quotes
This is an automated message from CorenSearchBot. I have performed a web search with the contents of Alan Partridge Quotes, and it appears to include a substantial copy of http://www.thehumorblog.com/alan-partridge-quotes/830. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. See our copyright policy for further details. (If you own the copyright to the previously published content and wish to donate it, see Donating copyrighted materials for the procedure.)

This message was placed automatically, and it is possible that the bot is confused and found similarity where none actually exists. If that is the case, you can remove the tag from the article and it would be appreciated if you could drop a note on the maintainer's talk page. CorenSearchBot (talk) 16:20, 21 May 2010 (UTC)

Personal note
A change in layout doesn't change the basic problem- Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, and what you're trying to create is not an enyclopedia article. Also, it's against the law to publish copyrighted material, so we really, really don't do that. Won't you please stop? If you'd like to help write an encyclopedia, you're welcome here, but it would make me so sad to have to block you from editing just because you misunderstood what Wikipedia is. -FisherQueen (talk · contribs) 16:23, 21 May 2010 (UTC)

File source problem with File:Alan-partridge-lg.jpg
Thank you for uploading File:Alan-partridge-lg.jpg. I noticed that the file's description page currently doesn't specify who created the content, so the copyright status is unclear. If you did not create this file yourself, you will need to specify the owner of the copyright. If you obtained it from a website, please add a link to the website from which it was taken, together with a brief restatement of that website's terms of use of its content. However, if the copyright holder is a party unaffiliated from the website's publisher, that copyright should also be acknowledged.

If you have uploaded other files, consider verifying that you have specified sources for those files as well. You can find a list of files you have created [ in your upload log]. Unsourced and untagged images may be deleted one week after they have been tagged per Wikipedia's criteria for speedy deletion, F4. If the image is copyrighted and non-free, the image will be deleted 48 hours after 17:52, 25 May 2010 (UTC) per speedy deletion criterion F7. If you have any questions or are in need of assistance please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. feydey (talk) 17:52, 25 May 2010 (UTC)

Let's make it simple
Welcome to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia. If you are looking for a place to house your collection of Alan Partridge humor, that's a worthy goal, but Wikipedia doesn't provide free web site space- it's just an encyclopedia, and that's all. If helping to write an encyclopedia is something you're interested in, you're entirely welcome here. If you're looking for a place to make a funny web page about Alan Patridge, you'll need to choose one of the many providers of free web space. I think you'll ultimately be happier with the web site you create, since they'll have tools that are more appropriate for your goals. If it would help you find a place that works for you, I'd be glad to block your access to Wikipedia- if that is the help you need, just let me know by making another edit that isn't useful for the encyclopedia. Thanks. -FisherQueen (talk · contribs) 21:43, 25 May 2010 (UTC)